Newsweek details that "57 percent of managers believe an unattractive (but qualified) job candidate will have a harder time getting hired" than someone attractive, and "68 percent believe that, once hired, looks will continue to affect the way managers rate job performance." Two thirds of those polled said they thought "some managers" might hesitate to hire someone who was significantly overweight. (They couldn't have been talking about themselves, though, right?)

But while a job candidate's attractiveness mattered more than an Ivy League alma mater, it still ranked below experience and confidence. And there is yet more hope for smarties who don't look like ScarJo: A 2009 Harvard study showed that while a pretty face helped people get hired and that, yes, knockouts tend to make bank—intelligence is still more of a factor than beauty when it comes to earning high salaries.